The only thing that can rescue Windows security is releasing the source code.

Mirosoft should just recognise the changed industriaö landscape and release Windows 11 as open source, so we can quickly discover and fix all the security issues, and enable all these customisations. I always thought Nadella would have the courage to do that.

Everything that is divisive has to be a controversy. It's kind of the definition.

What you're really asking is, "why is this divisive?" It's divisive because some people want AI everywhere in art (the corporations that bankroll and profit from art) and some people do not want AI everywhere in art (most artists, many consumers of art). Nearly nobody is demanding AI to be nowhere in art, just that its use is constrained to where it makes sense. But different people have different tolerances and that makes the topic divisive.

As for your (and the OP's) delightful suggestion that "if you don't like it, don't watch it", disclosure and publicity are precisely, exactly, and solely how such a decision can be made. If you don't know a cosmetic company is testing on bunnies, you can't boycott them. If you don't know a food product contains nuts, you can't act upon your allergies wisely. Point is: publicity and talking about it is literally the first, omitted step in your plan.

For every question "why don't they just", there is usually at least one good answer.

It'll start making more sense when it starts making more sense.

What I mean is that companies do whatever is the most profitable, and you can therefore judge what is most profitable by what they do. Undersea cables will be used where they're used until they're less profitable than overland cables with longer routes. Yes, sabotage plays into that. But so far that inflection point hasn't been reached.

When you're wrongfully imprisoned, jailbreak may be your only recourse.

I'm very surprised it's legal here. I thought the electric companies were legally required to serve their customers reliably, and not solely when they found it desirable to do so -- that's the agreement they made in exchange for being a natural monopoly (natural because you can't economically run more than one set of electric lines to every household). Apparently I was wrong about that?

Its both.

As you say, previous films had some degree of continuity.

But with Daniel Craigs Bond, we see him earn the 007 designation in the first film, so that makes his Bond a reboot and self contained.

Oh seriously?

I use both Slack and Teams day to day (we use Slack internally, client uses Teams, so we are on both as a result).

Slack we never have any issues with, and can find information from previous conversations easily.

Teams? Fuck teams. Fuck it and then fuck it some more. Its slow, clunky, constantly has issues, very hard to find information unless you still have the chat open somewhere, and chats are spread all over the place (chats, teams, channels...). Teams also requires you to have access to the workspaces OneDrive and SharePoint as well if you want to share files, so if you dont have access to those things then ... you are limited to text only.

Its video call system is sorely limited, and even doing things like zooming in to the presenters shared screen is clunky and shit.

Teams is the worst collaboration system I have ever used, so dont try making out that its better than Slack or Zoom. It is by far the worst of the three.

I mean... at least it's not Slack or Zoom. The competitors had a chance to do better and didn't.

Actually, at the extreme scales, which is the total volume of the observable universe, the universe is quite homogeneous. As I recall, to the order of 1-in-10000 variance. This is why Inflationary cosmology was developed, to explain the distinct lack of lumpiness in the universe, which is what we would expect if the Big Bang alone were responsible.

The EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) (fully applicable from January 16, 2027 onwards) mandates that manufacturers of products with digital elements (like Windows) must patch or mitigate disclosed vulnerabilities without undue delay (Article 10). For critical vulnerabilities, patches must be provided within 14 days of discovery (or sooner if actively exploited). For non-critical vulnerabilities, the deadline is 30 days.

Under the (CRA), should Microsoft fail to address a disclosed zero day vulnerability in Windows within the mandated timeframe or neglect to provide adequate mitigation measures, the product may no longer be permitted for distribution within the European market. Authorities would deem such inaction a breach of the regulation’s requirements, particularly if the vulnerability remains unpatched while being actively exploited. In such an instance, enforcement bodies could impose a suspension on the sale or distribution of Windows until Microsoft rectifies the issue, issues the necessary patches, and ensures compliance with the Act’s provisions. This measure serves to protect users from undue risk and uphold the integrity of digital products under the new regulatory framework.

As astronaut Frank Borman put it, "a superior pilot uses his superior judgement to avoid situations which would require the use of his superior piloting skill".

The programmer's version of that would be "a superior programmer uses his superior judgement to avoid creating the bugs that would require the use of his superior debugging skill".

The risk in this scenario is that after a few iterations of people applying AI-generated "black box" modifications, users start reporting that the ancient app is crashing on them now and then, and nobody has the first clue why, or how to fix it... and since the crash isn't readily reproducible, you can't even do a "git bisect" to figure out which commit introduced the regression. Now you're left with two unappetizing choices: either live with the instability forever, or roll back all of the "blind" commits to the last known-stable version and never touch the codebase again.